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Tell Us We're Home
Contributor(s): Budhos, Marina (Author)

ISBN: 1416903526 ISBN-13: 9781416903529
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2010
Annotation: "Tell Us We're Home" is a moving and thought-provoking story about the other side of the American dream by Marina Budhos, author of "Ask Me No Questions."

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - General

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2009027386

Age Level: 11-14

Grade Level: 6-9

Lexile Measure: 780(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.3" W x 8.54" L (0.83 lbs) 304 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Friendship
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2010 pg. 35
Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2010
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2010
School Library Journal 06/01/2010 pg. 96
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2010 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
New York Times Book Review 08/15/2010 pg. 12
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 137861
Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 10.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frapp s and complaining about the other kids. But there's one big difference: all three are daughters of maids and nannies. And they go to school with the very same kids whose families their mothers work for.

That difference grows even bigger--and more painful--when Jaya's mother is accused of theft and Jaya's small, fragile world collapses.

When tensions about immigrants start to erupt, fracturing this perfect, serene suburb, all three girls are tested, as outsiders--and as friends. Each of them must learn to find a place for themselves in a town that barely notices they exist.

Marina Budhos gives us a heartbreaking and eye-opening story of friendship, belonging, and finding the way home.

Contributor Bio(s): Budhos, Marina: - Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent novel is Watched, which received an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature YA Honor and a Walter Award Honor. Her other novels include Tell Us We're Home, a 2017 Essex County YA Pick; Ask Me No Questions, a recipient of the James Cook Teen Book Award; The Professor of Light; House of Waiting; and the nonfiction book Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers. With her husband Marc Aronson, she is the coauthor of Eyes of the World: Robert Capa & Gerda Taro & The Invention of Modern Photojournalism and Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom & Science, a 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist. Budhos has been a Fulbright Scholar to India, received two Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and is a professor of English at William Paterson University. You can visit her online at MarinaBudhos.com.

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